Saturday, September 12, 2009

Is Your ABC Station Carrying The Pre-Race Show?

Note: Please check your TV listings. If your local ABC station is going to preempt the NASCAR Countdown pre-race show scheduled for 7PM to run local news, please take a moment to tell us what the station is and where you live.

We are looking for the call letters, KTLA or WCBC...and the market it serves. Thanks!

Unrelated note of interest:Has anyone heard the promos for Richmond this week? They have a very bad error...Mr. Announcer says the line "the last 400 miles before the Chase" during the promo.Funny, but for that line to work, Richmond would have to be a 1-mile track.Correct line should have said "the final 400 LAPS before the Chase."Please tell me I'm not the only onne who noticed...

I was the one who told you on Twitter that the Fargo, ND ABC station is airing the local news rather than the pre-race. I didn't mention the call letters for the station in my tweet. It is WDAY. I did send them an email (and I was civil) expressing my disappointment. Hopefully they make a different decision for the Charlotte race in Oct (which starts at 6pm central, if I read the schedule right).

Phone calls or no, why would they even consider pre-empting coverage of the biggest race of the year? When did you first hear that they were changing their minds about the local newscast? How quickly can those on-screen guides be updated?